Surging Australian wine exports defy pandemic slump
Australia’s wine exports have defied the coronavirus pandemic economic slowdown to reach their highest value since 2007.
Chemist wins PM’s prize for battery, recycling innovations
The founder of two companies, one in plastics recycling and the other in battery storage, has won the $250,000 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation.
Robotics adoption matters: removing danger and cost from green infrastructure maintenance
Our Robotics adoption matters series heads away from the factory floor and outside for this instalment. Researchers Marc Carmichael and Sara Wilkinson discuss their Wallbot project.
Industry cadetships: a good but small step to tap the talents of women in STEM
An overarching criticism of the recent federal budget is that it overlooked the workers hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, namely women. However, the budget includes one promising, albeit small, initiative that focuses on this group. The government announced a cadetship program to help women to upskill in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), or to build a STEM career.
Perth robotics company builds two-storey house [VIDEO]
Construction robotics company FBR has announced that it has built its first two-storey house.
Gonski calls for focus on research translation
The federal boost to university research and CSIRO funding “is a good beginning” that must be followed by a new focus on working with industry to translate institutional research “into tangible things”, according to ANZ bank chairman and University of NSW chancellor David Gonski.
Consultations open for potential federal gas reservation scheme
The federal government is seeking submissions from stakeholders on a prospective gas reservation scheme.
Employees and business benefit from Corporate Partners training
It’s graduation for employees at Enware this week, an event which not only added to an improvement in job satisfaction and work culture but also resulted in an 11% increase in the business with improved communications within and between teams.
Robotics adoption matters: identifying opportunities for implementing cobots
Collaborative robots represent an increasing share of all industrial robots sold. In this part of @AuManufacturing’s Robotics adoption matters series, Vikram Sachdeva suggests some places to look to see if they could improve your factory’s operations.
Swinburne: new Amazon degree builds on training collaborations with manufacturers
Swinburne University has credited training developed with manufacturers as leading to a new cloud technologies course with Amazon Web Services to begin next year.